I would like to know how much britain throws away in household rubbish and how much we recycle in the time of a year?
400 million tonnes of waste is created in England and Wales every year…of this waste, over 60% is buried in landfill sites…and about 14 million glass bottles and jars end up there EVERY DAY! The rest gets recycledAbout 29 million tonnes of the waste produced in the UK each year comes from our homesThe equivalent would be similar to everybody throwing away around four times their own body weightIn the UK there are more than 15 billion electrical and electronic appliances – an average of 25 per householder Every year we throw away over a million tonnes of waste electronic and electrical goods and 90% of this has been ending up in landfill sitesIn the UK we send more than 105 million tonnes of waste material to landfill every year Almost two-thirds of this is biodegradable organic matter from households, businesses and industry which could be re-used, composted or recycled in some formAbout 20,000 tonnes of aluminium foil packaging (worth ?8,000,000) is wastes each yearOnly 3,000 tonnes is recycled I hope all those figures aren't too confusing )
If you can raise some boxes off of the ground, wrap large plastic bags around the boxes, cutting a hole for entry this will help keep the wind and cold off of themPut down old rags for beddingWhen wrapping the plastic bags, use duct tape to wrap tightly so the wind doesn't rustle the bags scaring the cats.
GOOD GRIEF ! ! ! - these animal have fur coats and where I live they survive weather as cold as MINUS 45F Our little Canadian Prairie village has two colonies of feral cats and none have ever died of weather related causesThe even birth litters in the middle of our harsh Winter.
I know YOU may think its freezing, but seriously the cats will be fine with boxes and a towel to keep out of the chillThey will NOT be freezing I come from Minnesota and the barn cats up here endure and are fine with temps below 32 degrees and fine even at 10 below zero.
